Music stars with VIP tour packages: Would you pay $1000 for a selfie?

SOME of the biggest names in music are touring Australia and selling VIP packages – and one is even charging $1000 for a selfie.

Deals for fans ... One Direction fans who can scrounge up $300 will get the best seats at their 2015 tour. And a watch.

WHAT would you pay to sit on stage with Queen? Or in the front row for the Eagles? Or for the closest seat possible to scream directly at One Direction on their stadium tour?

If you answered $1250 for Queen, $995 for the Eagles or $300 for 1D you are in luck.

Some of the biggest names in music are headed to Australia and have found VIP packages that make cashed-up fans, and their own bank balances, very happy.

And Melbourne rapper 360 has managed to monetise the selfie as part of a $1000 VIP package.

Queen, who are touring Australia with singer Adam Lambert, have a variety of VIP packages, none of which include a meet and greet, just increased proximity to the band.

The “extremely limited” Ultimate On Stage VIP Experience includes the money shot of one reserved seat on the side of the stage. Your money also gets you a backstage tour, VIP merchandise, entry to a pre-show VIP function and VIP entrance to the venue as well as a VIP lane for merchandise and beverages.

The seating plan suggests around 12 seats will be placed on stage at each show.

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Other options including the I Want It All package (around $750), We are the Champions ($600) and Don’t Stop Me Now ($500) offer VIP merchandise and premium seats near the front stage or catwalk, but not on stage.

One Direction fans will have to save some serious pocket money to fund the $300 “hot ticket”. That price gets you one seat with “the closest views to the main stage and B-stage” as well as a 1D wrist watch.

Deals for fans ... One Direction fans who can scrounge up $300 will get the best seats at their 2015 tour. And a watch.

Parents may to budget for the fact that tickets for 1D’s 2015 Australian tour are priced at $179 for A-reserve, $139.90 for B-reserve and $99.90 for the cheapest seats.

Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 4pm, so as not to interfere with school hours.

Melbourne rapper 360 has put a price on the selfie - he has included a $1000 VIP package for his September headline tour that lets the buyer not only watch the show from the side of the stage but get a Selfie with Sixty. It also includes early access to the event and a multitude of autographed memorabilia as well autographed 360 Sol Republic custom headphones. Other VIP packages for his Utopia tour are priced at $500 (selfie) and $250 (no selfie) and include access to soundcheck as well as the full concert.

Charging for a selfie ... Rapper 360 (Matt Colwell) who has a VIP package for his tour.

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The Eagles have just announced the price of front row VIP seats to their Australian shows next year.

Fans will have to pay $995 each for an unobsctructed view of the American rockers on their History of the Eagles tour.

Coming back ... The Eagles performing in Sydney on their last Australian tour. For $1000 you could have this view (however don’t stand up before you’re told or take too many photos).

That’s one up from the platinum ticket offers, where you can sit near the front row, but not in the front row, for around $675.

The band were one of the first to realise diehard fans will pay a premium rate for the best seats in the house.

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The Rolling Stones also have high-end ticket options. $1275 provides entry to the “tongue pit” that houses a few hundred cashed-up fans as well as bespoke VIP merchandise including a lithograph screen printed with your individual tour date, city and venue.

Fans of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who recently sang for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian at their wedding, can pay to be “treated like royalty” on his September Australian tour.

For $995 Bocelli fans can purchase package that includes a pre-show dinner “exclusively designed for only a small group of people” and a “high-end Andrea Bocelli-inspired menu” among other items including one ticket within the first two rows.

Popular act ... Marie from Roxette performing at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on their last tour of Australia. This time you can party with a DJ, but not the band, before they hit the stage.

Swedish duo Roxette offer tickets that range from $100 and $120 but also an “ultimate VIP Party Package” for $525 with a seat in the first two rows plus access to a 90 minute pre-show VIP party with a complimentary bar and a DJ, as well as VIP merchandise.

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As we reported earlier this year, a meet and greet with Lady Gaga will cost you $1500, Justin Timberlake is charging $1500 for two seats on the “riser bar” while $500 gets you two premium seats to see Katy Perry plus a dedicated bathroom.

Lady Gaga is also offering $355 “early entry” tickets to improve the opportunity to get to the front row in the general admission area.

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